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“Beloved, although I was very eager to write
to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to
you to contend for the faith that was
once for all delivered to the saints.” — Jude 3 The Christian faith has many adversaries, both
within and outside the church.This was
true in Jude’s day, and it’s no less true in our own.Of the two, however, the internal foes may pose
the greater threat, because they’re more deceptive.A skeptic who openly denies the faith and
argues against it—say, a Christopher Hitchens or a Sam Harris—is easily
recognized as a foe.So is a persecutor
like a Diocletian or a Stalin or a soldier of Allah waving the black flag of
ISIS. The internal foes, however, are more difficult
to recognize.The danger they pose is
subtle.They claim to be friends of the
faith but are in fact its mortal enemies.I’m referring specifically to heretics—those who reject the truth as
it’s revealed in Scripture and teach lies instead.They’re false prophets, false teach…

Here are a few things to keep in
mind about yesterday’s election—and elections in general. First, the outcome of any given
election is not the absolute disaster that many people might be tempted to think
it is. God remains sovereign over all
the affairs of men, even of powerful political figures. The king’s heart is a stream of
water in the hand of the Lord; he turns it wherever he will. Proverbs
21:1 God can prevent whatever evil or folly
politicians intend to do. He frustrates the devices of the
crafty, so that their hands achieve no
success. Job
5:12 Even that evil and folly which he
permits them to achieve, he can turn to the good (Gen. 50:20).

Second, the outcome isn’t the unrivalled
blessing that others might imagine it to be. Politicians are notoriously pitiful saviors. The best of them often leave behind a trail of
broken promises, dashed hopes, unfulfilled expectations, and betrayed trusts. To build one’s hopes on getting the “right” people
in office is like building a castle on…

Introduction In my previous post we considered the underlying assumptions of the social justice movement. In this one, we will consider its Marxist origins. My contention is that social justice is best understood as a euphemism for what is variously called Neo-, Western, or Cultural Marxism. It’s called Neo-Marxism to distinguish it from Marxism in its original form, Western Marxism because of its adaptation to western societies, and Cultural Marxism because it takes the principle of class struggle in traditional Marxist theory and applies it to other social struggles in the broader culture. This last term is perhaps the most helpfully descriptive. But to understand Cultural Marxism, we must first understand Classical Marxism. Classical Marxism Classical Marxism is the name given to the social, political, and economic thought of Karl Marx (1818-1883). Marx and his associate, Friedrich Engels, were the co-authors of the Communist Manifesto (1848). They, along with their immediate i…

Justice
is an attribute which is consistently ascribed to God in Scripture and
presented as a defining characteristic of his reign (Deut. 32:4; Ps. 97:2; Isa. 30:18b; Rev. 15:3; etc.).Because heis just, he calls us to live justly with one another (Gen. 18:19;
Ps. 33:5; Jer. 5:1; Mic. 6:8; etc.). This
call includes laboring to form a just society (Deut. 1:13-17; 16:18-20; Isa.
1:16-17; Jer. 22:3; Amos 5:15, 24; etc.). This is not merely incidental to our call,
but integral to it.Pursuing
justice—both personally and in broader society—is one of the weightier matters
of the law (Matt. 23:23).It is, in
fact, one of the ways in which we live by the golden rule and fulfill the
command, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself” (Lev. 19:18; Matt. 22:39; Jas.
2:8). There
are few who would argue against justice as the foundation of civilized society,
but there is perhaps less consensus now than at any point in our nation’s history
as to what justice is.It’s becoming painfully clear that not
ev…